LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 05 July 2018

Development: On 4 July Poder360, a local news site, published its latest opinion poll showing that up to 42% of Brazilians plan to abstain or annul their ballot in October’s presidential elections.... Read More

* Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras has signed a letter of intent with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to conclude construction of the Complexo Petroquímico do Rio de Janeiro (Comperj) petrochemical and refinery project.... Read More

Development: On 4 July a Santiago guarantees judge announced that Carlos Alberto Délano and Carlos Eugenio Lavín, the founders of Penta, a Chilean financial group, as well as Pablo Wagner, a deputy mining minister (2010-2012), would face an abbreviated trial procedure in relation to the illegal campaign finance case involving Penta.... Read More

Uruguay: Uruguay’s national institute of statistics (INE) has released its latest inflation figures for June 2018 which show that inflation was 0.99% compared with the previous month, bringing the year-on-year rate to 8.11%.... Read More